Mid-Autum Festival

Aunty Amy invited us over to their house today for the Mid-Autumn festival. Such a lucky thing that Ko-ko is back, so you can meet up with the relatives.

The dinner menu is steamboat. There were 2 tables to feed the 19 of us. As usual, Aunty Amy prepared a lot of food for dinner. *Oops.. I'd forgotten to take photos of our dinner*

While we were waiting for our food to settle, Uncle Sin Chuan whipped out his liquour. Even Tou-tou was given a cup of brandy. This time Abigial made sure to watch her closely and ensure that she does not finish the whole glass in one gulp!

Then it was time for dessert.. the whole table was full of all sorts of mooncakes (jelly, traditional flavours such as lotus paste and red bean, non-traditional ones like bak kwa filled, chocolate filled), fruits and red bean soup.

Tou-tou enjoying the red bean soup

Cute jelly mooncakes

It's always nice to gather with family. Happy Mid-Autumn Festival.

Happy 14th Birthday, Evelyn

We managed to buy large prawns when we went to Jaya Grocer on Monday evening. Lucky you.. so tonight's dinner was something special as it's your birthday.

Prawns grilled on daddy's new favourite little barbecue grill. Chef of the night is Ko-ko as daddy was busy in the kitchen with other food to cook:

And this is the spread we had for tonight's dinner:

Beautifully grilled prawns

Baked potatoes

Pan-grilled salmon

Grilled chicken

And all of them assembled on my plate:

Rested a little to let our very satisfied bellies settle and for kakak to clear away the dinner dishes before we sang the birthday song and had cake:

Cheeky girl!

Posing with the cake you picked and added more decorations to

Daddy lighted the candle again to see who can blow off the candle first

Cutting the cake and making a wish

Happy birthday to our baby girl. All grown up, and yet sometimes cute and always our little baby.  💖

 

Happy Belated Birthday, Ah Kong

We headed home to continue with the cake. 

Evann with Ah Kong

After we'd sung the song, time to blow out the candle, cut the cake and make a wish.

Happy Birthday, Ah Kong. 

Cheers to many more years of good health, wonderful celebrations and great food!

Double Birthday Celebration

It's such good timing that Ko-ko had a week long break around both yours and Ah Kong's birthday. Daddy asked if you were ok to have a combined celebration at Moo Point. You were happy with that arrangement since you also enjoyed the food there.

Again, we were seated at the same table as before. My babies

My handsome 20 year old

And my beautiful soon-to-be 14 year old

Their menu is quite simple, but even then we had a bit of a time trying to pick the steaks.

Cauliflower and blue cheese soup

Wagyu tartare - Evelyn's special request

Sourdough with smoked butter

Green Leaf Salad

(I forgot what this was.. it's salad with baby potatoes)

Rib (and the cabbage appetizer at the top of the photo)

Wagyu

MP Steak (I think..)

And I forgot what cut this is.. 😓

Of course, no steak dinner is complete without wine. We brought two good wines:

And we finished up with desserts. Complimentary ice-cream:

In the Mood.. for Braids

Yup, we were a little late today because a certain little girl decided that she needed braids for school today.. That's why you got ready faster than usual.

Humpty Dumpty

.. and that is daddy. He had a fall on Sunday while playing golf. Unlike what he'd usually do which is to say wait and leave it be, he sure was in a rush to get whatever medications to help his recovery. 

Why? Because he has a golfing trip coming up!

This bruise appeared a few days later

Braids

We were talking about braids and I said that I could tie Dutch braids, but not as well. Well I ended up tying for you. And you went to sleep with them and to school today in them!

Karate Brown 2 Grading

Today is grading day. This year it's held in SRJK Kong Min Cawangan 2 in Air Itam. I happily told daddy that it was the school where you had your karate camp back in May. Well, we sure were surprised when we arrived since there was no car there. And then I realised the photo did not look like those sent by sensei!

Well, we quickly checked the messages and turned on Google maps to bring us to the correct location. We still made it with sufficient time to settle down before the grading started. It was a combination of Brown 2 and Brown 3 students.

First was the kata. Could not get a good photo of you since we're seated at the back and you were quite far to the front. The examiner this year is stricter, asking you all to do it correctly and even coming down to correct certain students. I guess the technique must be more correct as you go to higher belts.

Next is the kumite. Your sparring partner is your friend from the dojo, Angelynn. 

The exam timing went further than the allocated time. After everyone completed the kumite, the examiner gave you all a brief talk about the importance of karate and doing it properly and time for a quick group photo before calling it a day:

Then we hopped into the car and headed for breakfast before going home.

P/s: Sensei proudly announced that everyone passed that day.